Static information storage and retrieval – Addressing – Optical
Patent
1994-07-07
1995-07-25
Nguyen, Viet Q.
Static information storage and retrieval
Addressing
Optical
369 4437, 369 4438, 369 4439, 369109, 369112, G11B 700, G11C 1142
Patent
active
054368715
ABSTRACT:
A compact optical memory in which data is stored in an optical data layer capable of selectively altering light such as by changeable transmissivity, reflectivity, polarization, and/or phase. The data is illuminated by controllable light sources and an array of multi-surface diffractive imaging lenslets cause a data image to be projected onto an array of light sensors by reflecting, hence folding the image rays, by means of a mirror that both reflects and optically modifies the light rays to redirect them onto the sensor array located substantially coplanar with the data layer. Data is organized into an annular array of patches (called pages). By selective illumination of each data page, one of the lenslets images the selected data page onto a central image plane where the sensor array is located. Light in the data image pattern strikes different ones of the arrayed light sensors, thereby outputting a pattern of binary bits in the form of electrical data signals. By selectively and sequentially illuminating different ones of the data regions (pages) on the data layer, correspondingly different data patterns are imaged by the corresponding lenslets onto the common sensor array, thereby enabling many stored data images to be retrieved by multiplexing at electro-optical speed.
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Information Optics Corporation
Nguyen Viet Q.
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